Real deep snow in London!

It's been a while since London has had "proper" snow I can tell you but today it arrived. I didn't sleep too well last night and was sort of on snow watch. No snow at 4.17am but when the dog decided he wanted to go on his morning constitutional at 5.27am there was a white blanket everywhere! It must have really fell down in such a short time.

Here is a snowman built by some children happily playing. Their school was shut due to the snow. Isn't he lovely!

London sort of grinds to a halt when it snows. The tube gets all silly and won't go due to the wrong kind of snow on the tracks. The buses can't get up the hills and motorists will insist on trying to drive their cars up and down very slippery roads! I suppose even here in the green belt of north London we must have had about 5 or 6 inches of snow. Don't know what that is in cm's or even mm's as I have not converted over....I'm still a pounds, shillings and ounces girl!

All this and we have only just (within the last 2 weeks) had the hose pipe ban lifted in this part of London!!